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  • Data for Journalists

    A Practical Guide for Computer-Assisted Reporting

    by Brant Houston ...
    Now in its sixth edition, Data for Journalists is a straightforward and effective guide to using data for news stories.This concise textbook addresses all the key basic skills that data journalists need, including how to find and scrape data, how to build a database, how to visualize data, and how to use spreadsheets and database managers – before launching into coding and more advanced analysis. ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Changing Models for Journalism

    Reinventing the Newsroom

    by Brant Houston ...
    Exploring the deep transformation that journalism has undergone in the last decade, this book provides students, professors and working journalists with the background on the demise of traditional media in the U.S. and the changes happening in the digital newsrooms.Houston discusses today’s changes in journalism in the U.S., comparing and contrasting them with those around the world. Topics ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Power, Employment and Accumulation

    Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy

    by Jim Stanford, Lance Taylor, Brant Houston ...
    This book provides an interesting and refreshing collection of economic research conducted in the broadly heterodox tradition. A variety of topical issues are addressed, including labor market inequalities, welfare reform, interest rate policies, international trade, and global financial instability. What unites these diverse essays is their common perspective that social institutions and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • Don't Be Evil

    The Case Against Big Tech

    by Rana Foroohar ...
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  • Forms that Work

    Designing Web Forms for Usability

    by Gerry Gaffney, Caroline Jarrett ...
    Series series Interactive Technologies
    Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability clearly explains exactly how to design great forms for the web. The book provides proven and practical advice that will help you avoid pitfalls, and produce forms that are aesthetically pleasing, efficient and cost-effective. It features invaluable design methods, tips, and tricks to help ensure accurate data and satisfied customers. It includes ... Read more

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  • Governing for Results

    A Director's Guide to Good Governance

    by Mel D. Gill ...
    BEST SELLERThis BEST SELLIING book provides a comprehensive guide to effective governance for board members and their senior executives. The author offers a new framework for understanding boards and proposes practices that boards can use to fulfill their stewardship responsibilities, strengthen board performance and improve organizational effectiveness. The book discusses the basics of governance ... Read more

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  • Debunking Economics

    The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

    by Professor Steve Keen ...
    Debunking Economics exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong. When the original Debunking was published back in 2001, the market economy seemed invincible, and conventional 'neoclassical' economic theory basked in the limelight. Steve Keen argued that economists deserved none ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Data Journalism Handbook

    How Journalists Can Use Data to Improve the News

    by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers, Liliana Bounegru ...
    When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Wal-Mart

    The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

    Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    A collection of essays that "do an incredible job of balancing the wonders and horrors of the force that is Wal-Mart " ( Booklist , starred review).Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the United States and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a ... Read more

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  • Creating a Learning Society

    A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce Greenwald ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact, the pace at which developing countries grow is largely a function of the pace at which they ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Economics After the Crisis

    Objectives and Means

    by Adair Turner ...
    Series series Lionel Robbins Lectures
    A noted economist challenges the fundamental economic assumptions that cast economic growth as the objective and markets as the universally applicable means of achieving it.The global economic crisis of 2008–2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system's underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical ... Read more

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